Jessica Longbottom

Jessica Longbottom has reported for the ABC in both Tasmania and Melbourne. She's also been a producer for the ABC's Australia Network and Global TV in Vancouver, Canada. Career highlights include reporting from the Beaconsfield Mine Disaster in 2006 and working as a producer for Canada's Global National during the election of US President Barack Obama in 2008.

Victoria faces a gas shortage by 2021 as offshore reserves start to run out. One proposed solution is to build the country's first floating gas import facility on the Mornington Peninsula, but residents are worried about the environmental risks.

A young woman who had been an ASIO officer "for about five minutes" who noticed a group of young men acting unusually in a chemist late at night helped foil a Christmas bomb plot in Melbourne's CBD, the country's spy boss reveals.

Premier Daniel Andrews gives his support to former ambulance union secretary Steve McGhie to run for the seat of Melton after a surprise decision by Labor's original candidate to abandon the race, citing "family reasons".

The family of 19-year-old Patrick Cronin, who was killed in a one-punch attack in Melbourne's north-east, are fighting for compensation from their son's killer as a report urges changes to the way compensation is awarded to Victorian victims of crime.

The idea of one single city centre is being challenged in Melbourne, where the population has surged beyond 5 million people. There are now plans for another seven CBDs, to stop the city being choked by growth — but not everyone is convinced it will work.

Melbourne is expanding at breakneck speed, and risks becoming a victim of its own popularity. Its inhabitants now face a choice between two population plans, and experts warn the consequences of getting it wrong will be dire.

A police officer at the rank of Senior Constable or above would be given the power to issue an on-the-spot indefinite intervention order in domestic violence cases if the Opposition wins the November election, Liberal leader Matthew Guy says.

Several models of gas heaters are removed from sale after they fail technical testing, with others due to be withdrawn from the market soon. It comes after several deaths and a recommendation from a Victorian coroner.

Australians who want fast fibre-to-the-premises broadband are encouraged to team up with neighbours and share costs — but one of the few people to do so says NBN Co made the process far more difficult than it should have been.

NBN users who choose to pay thousands of dollars out of their own pocket for a high-speed internet connection are inadvertently paying to upgrade their neighbours' connections as well as public infrastructure.

Millions of Australians are living with both physical and mental ill health, according to a new report, which has for the first time revealed the link between chronic disease like diabetes and back pain, and mental wellbeing.